Re: FN-FORUM: More crazy US patents

date posted 1st April 2004 12:59

Summin else in the news at the mo about this
http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/mattloney/0,39020679,39150021,00.htm

On 1/4/04 12:51 pm, "ken mcewan" wrote:

>
> d) Patents in the USA generate extra work for Lawyers and are
> hence granted for "anything" and is up to anyone subjected to
> it's enforcement to show prior art etc......
> Would like to know how many get overturned each year ?
>
>
> On 1 Apr 2004 11:39:28 -0000, Mark Pawelek wrote:
>>
>> I can't decide whether this is due to (a) ignorance/incompetence of
>> the
>> patent examiner; (b) time constraints, i.e. the examiner not having
>> the time
>> to understand the patent and its scope or (c) is the US deliberately
>> passing
>> any patent that gives US industry a competitive advantage over the
>> other
>> countries industry (to support this idea, consider that the CIA
>> spend a good
>> deal of time involved in industrial espionage for the benefit of US
>> industry).
>>
>> What do people think?
>>
>> Before you come to a quick conclusion ponder this - this silly
>> patents all
>> seem to originate from the US.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of
>> ken mcewan
>> Sent: 01 April 2004 09:05
>> To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
>> Subject: FN-FORUM: More crazy US patents
>>
>>
>> Well this is the best yet:-
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/36707.html
>>
>> they have managed to patent subdomains !!
>>
>> Got to love the US system..
>>
>> Ken
>>
>>
>
>

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